Early Sunday fire destroys shed, trailers near town of Pine Grove

8:51 PM,
Mar. 3, 2013

Written by

Kevin Lu

Fire destroyed a storage building and four tractor-trailers near the town of Pine Grove east of Highway 39 early Sunday morning.

Just before 1 a.m. Sunday, a driver on Highway 39 called the Portage County Sheriff's Department to report the fire. The structure is on the Paramount Farms property at 5340 Third Ave. in Plainfield. The cost of the four tractor-trailers was about $80,000 each, and the cost to rebuild the storage building would be about $300,000, Paramount Farms owner and general manager Bob Berard said.

One of the trailers "shorted, we assume that's what started the fire," said ...